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Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail
You don't have to be grownup to be a princess. In fact, if you were a princess in the middle ages, you didn't even have to be grown up to be in an arranged marriage designed to make your parents richer. Your body could be sold at any age.
Step 1: raise reality consciousness of the working class
Step 2: mutual aid and practice magic
Step 3: communist revolution
Step 4: as a communist society, develop further technologies of mind and machine to further unchain our perceptions
Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to balance it, and I shall move the earth". I believe science will give us ever more power over our experiences. I already use the astral plane to be Myself, we need to increase access to magical technology and perform more research.
He's a god. An evil one. Humanity creates gods when they worship ideas. Donald Trump isn't a man, he's an idea, festering in the minds of millions of people. His power comes from that belief and reverence. His followers commit all these crimes in his name, and THAT is what it means to be a god.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/princesses-are-nsfw-f9e6c3d4532d
Princesses are just whores without any honour.
Yes, much in the same way that syndicalism or mutualism are anarchism with extra steps. Soulists are anarchists who are a little more open minded, and willing to challenge a couple more hierarchies. Realism, the belief in an objective universe, is the root of all conservativism, and must be destroyed in order to reach liberation.
This is true, and this is false - source: me?”
No, I don't have the expertise in indigenous metaphysics to write that dialogue. It was written by James Cross after many long conversations we had about soulism and Tiwi beliefs.
Soulism, put simply, is the theory that hierarchy is bad, and reality is a hierarchy we have the ability to abolish. You can read My manifesto on soulism at http://soulism.net/
As to why I made this comic? If you go to the polcompball wiki page on soulism, you'll see a disclaimer stating that soulism is fictional. The soulist community has had many arguments with the wiki's admin team about this label. Today, this comic suddenly came to Me, and I just had to draw it. I thought I might post it somewhere on Lemmy. Blahaj's soulism community was deleted by the admins, and this was the next best place. I do wish I'd been able to post it to a Lemmy community where the background required to fully appreciate the meme was more normalised, but such communities seem not to last very long. Last year I attempted to create lemmy.soulism.net, but I ran into problems with the cost of VPSes.
Fictional ideologies club
Explanation: Marxism-Leninism is a fictional ideology invented by Joseph Stalin. Anarcho-Capitalism is a fictional ideology invented by Murray Rothbard. Soulism, contrary to popular perception, is a coherent ideology practiced by actual people who (unwillingly) live in the real world. In My conversations with Indigenous Australians, I've learned Soulism bears a remarkable similarity to the metaphysical views of certain Aboriginal nations, especially the Tiwi people, which have been stable and which have guided entire societies over many thousands of years.
Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b-DaK8ovlp0UZJLlN-B4s4wG_HwVfqyI/view?usp=sharing
When I see a little girl getting excited about Disney princesses and wanting to be one, I see a child being sexually groomed. It's disgusting and it needs to stop. It's abusive. We shouldn't be exposing children to these kinds of messaging. We need to be aware of what our words mean, so we can use them wisely.
Yes, but it would be mean to them.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/princesses-are-nsfw-f9e6c3d4532d
USA, Russia, and China are part of the same "psychological continent" - Toward a Psychological Atlas of the World With Mixture Modeling
This article presents findings based on the outcomes of research conducted with 8,883 participants from 33 countries. It employs mixture modeling (latent profile analysis) to classify countries into latent classes. The country-level analyses are based on three social attitudes factor scores of Nastiness, Religiosity, and Morality. The results indicate that the main sources of cross-cultural differences are with respect to a broadly defined Conservatism/Liberalism. Three groups of societies—that is, “psychological continents”—appear to exist in the world today. They are as follows: (a) liberal European countries plus Canada and Australia; (b) conservative countries from South and South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America; and (c) all other countries, including the United States, Russia, and China, that are in between liberal and conservative groups. In addition, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, cognitive test performance, and governance indicators were found to be
Least sexually abusive She-Ra fan
Reality is bad. Go to http://soulism.net/ to read the antirealist manifesto
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/princesses-are-nsfw-f9e6c3d4532d
Luigi isn't a princess, he's a hero
However, the law doesn't talk about genotype. It talks about gametes. Embryos don't produce gametes. The law does not specify a difference.
Trump's new sex definitions are impossible for anyone to meet. Everyone is legally nonbinary now. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/trump-says-americans-are-all-intersex-not-female-b31f97ffd80d
Reality has always been crafted by the oppressor. It's an inherently oppressive concept. http://soulism.net/
Here's the second: https://aussie.zone/post/16690613/14097514
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I could spend My life meeting strange new otherkin right here on earth.
Zuck rule
This is a screenshot from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, a tokusatsu show about doctors and video games
Are they still allowed to do that if you haven't spoken to them in years, or do you have to legally disown them to get them out of the equation?
Just found out I wasn't registered as an organ donor
I just got a message from Medicare inviting Me to register as an organ donor. I thought I already was. I remember ticking the organ donation box when I first applied for My drivers license.
If I'd have died in the last few years, My organs wouldn't have saved any lives. Who knows how many other people want to donate but aren't registered? I think Australia should have an opt-out system instead of an opt-in system, so that people don't need to make an effort in order to do the right thing. Doing the right thing should be easy.
I believe that we can know things. I just don't believe we can know things objectively. We need a better standard for knowledge than objectivity, because objectivity is worthless.
One of the most memorable episodes of Star Trek Voyager is Tuvix. Tuvok, Voyager’s chief security officer, and Neelix, the ship’s cook, are…
Artificial Intelligence is a really cool concept on TV. In movies like The Matrix and Terminator, AIs are the equals or betters of humans…
In Arabic, the word for a god is “ilah”. Thor is an ilah. Kali is an ilah. Kukulkan is an ilah. There are plenty of them. But the prefix…
While I am not personally an atheist, this was the only religion-centered community I could find to post this article, and surely we polytheists and atheists can find a united purpose in condemning monotheistic bias.
For example, you probably know that most people are binary, and someone with a binary gender identity can be a man or a woman. That’s a gender identity inside another gender identity. And you may…
Some states are doing better than others at energy
The top graph is South Australia’s energy grid. The bottom is Queensland’s. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.
Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/
Some states are doing better than others at energy
The top graph is South Australia’s energy grid. The bottom is Queensland’s. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.
Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/
Some states are doing better than others at energy
The top graph is South Australia's energy grid. The bottom is Queensland's. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.
Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/
With the popularity of princesses in various media, especially Disney movies, and the degree to which princess media is pushed on children…
Psychologist B. F. Skinner coined the phrase “operant conditioning”, based on his experiments with training animals. He would put a small…
How Twitter can ruin a life
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.
Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.
I can't subscribe to a community I'm unbanned from
This is a simple software bug. You see, the way Lemmy federates is that updates to a community only federate to instances that have a user subscribed to that community. If you take a community like [email protected], I'm the only person on all of Aussie Zone who subscribed to it. I know it because when I subscribed, we started getting updates from Blahaj.Zone about that community.
A few days ago, I was mistakenly banned from that community. And this caused Blahaj.Zone to stop sending our instance updates on the community. I spoke with the admin of the community and got unbanned, but the unban didn't federate. The instance will only let us know I'm unbanned if someone here subscribes over there. And I can't subscribe, because this server thinks I'm banned. It's a deadlock. If it wasn't for the ban, I could subscribe and the server would realise there isn't a ban anymore. But I can't, because this server thinks there is still a ban.
A moderator of a community on Blahaj misgendered Me and I can't report it.
Two hours ago I made a post to [email protected] about US politics. I had previously had a good relationship with the head moderator of this community. They've encouraged My political posts, and he's removed comments by people that misgendered Me, and reminded people of My pronouns, like in this thread two days ago:
However, an hour ago in this new thread, the same moderator who was telling people to respect My capitalised pronouns uses lowercase pronouns to address Me:
And he has left up earlier comments which also seemed to misgender Me, and which I specifically pointed out:
Even as some users in the thread gender Me correctly:
I'm making this thread in the main community because
Young people these days only use the word "slut" in dirty talk, such that calling someone a slut in polite company is now unacceptable. The sluts stole the word for themselves. Great job, sluts!
Alright, let’s get one myth out of the way. Capitalised pronouns are not rare. I have personally met thousands of people who use…
Nonexistent moderation on Beehaw /c/neurodivergence
c/neurodivergence isn't being moderated at all lately. Three months ago there was the great post from [email protected] concerning ableism against people with NPD, and the amount of toxicity I saw in that thread was shocking. Some great people pushing back on the ableism and hate there, but I couldn't believe those hateful comments were being left up, or the sheer volume of them.
Yesterday I posted a new article I wrote also concerning NPD, hoping I would get the same kind of positive response I've gotten from Beehaw in the past when talking about neurodiversity. But instead I saw nothing but hate, personal attacks, and vicious toxicity. This isn't the kind of discourse I come to Beehaw to see, and I don't think I'm alone.
Looking at the community history, it looks like the post volume has dramatically reduced since immediately before that first NPD post. I'm not surprised people are avoiding the community, I don't intend to use it anymore either if what I received yes